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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

TRENTHAM
Description and History from 1868 Gazetteer

 

"TRENTHAM, a parish in the N. division of Pirehill hundred, county Stafford, 3 miles from Stoke-on-Trent, its post town, and 4 S.E. of Newcastle. It is a station on the North Staffordshire railway. This place is situated on the rivers Trent and Grand Trunk canal.

The parish includes the chapelry of Blurton and the townships of Butterton, Clayton-Griffith, Hanchurch, Hanford, and Trentham. It was formerly extensive, being divided into three parishes by Act of Parliament in the 58th year of George III. It is the site of a nunnery founded by King Ethelred, and given to St. Werburgh, his sister, as abbess. In the reign of Henry I. Randal, Earl of Chester, converted the nunnery into an Austin priory, the revenue of which at the Dissolution was £121 3s. 2d., when the site was given to the Brandons.

There are extensive brick and tile works. The village, which is large and well built, contains a savings-bank and police station. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £113.

The church, dedicated to St. Mary, was rebuilt in 1842 by the Duke of Sutherland. The register dates from 1558. There is also the district church of Butterton, the living of which is a perpetual curacy, and a chapel-of-ease at More Heath. The parochial charities produce about £81 per annum, of which £20 go to Lady K. Leveson's school, now united with the parochial school. The principal residence is the Hall."

 

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]